I'm using a system based on Ubuntu 14.04
There are multiple partitions on /dev/sda. /dev/sda1 is where the system resides, /dev/sda2, ..., /dev/sdaX are NTFS partitions. There are two users admin and ...

I am creating a user using useradd command in Ubuntu which does not require that I set a password for the user.
how ever when I try to use su command to login as that user, su requires me to enter a ...

I'm trying to use Koala (http://koala-app.com/) to compile sass in /var/www/html. When I try to add my style.scss file all of the files are greyed out. I've added my account to www-data. When I run it ...

I want to try out some alternative desktops, see whats going on, but I have a annoying issue, when I install a desktop package I get all the applications and stuff that come with it just added to the ...

On a default Ubuntu (15.04) installation, We have 7 TTYs that we can switch with Ctrl+Alt+F [1-7], where TTY1-6 are terminals and TTY7 is the graphical X session.
I would like to have more than one ...

I've recently had an increased interest in how multiple users are handled in Ubuntu, and have hit an interesting problem: running commands as sudo from a standard account. If I run a GUI application ...

We have a custom installation of Ubuntu Landscape 15.01 in our network (using the instructions from here: How do I install Landscape for personal use?), and installed several servers that connect to ...

I have a 15.04 machine with basically 2 user accounts, an admin and a restricted user. What I want is that both of them have separate home directories (for system/application settings etc.), but use ...

my admin account on my computer expired. I set the expiry date myself exploring different account modifications but apparently forgot to reset it.
I would like to reactivate it or create a new user ...

Our organization is making some changes in their security model and they have created a domain server with which each machine would be linked.
For this, they have created a new user on my laptop which ...

I reciently decided to manage my own web server (Ubuntu/Nginx) and as best practices I went and disabled the root user and created a new one with root privileges. When I created the new user I didn't ...

I was trying to move my home folder to another account so hopefully my programs would have run faster on a new user. But apparently that did not work out well and I can not login to either accounts.
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I'm running an Ubuntu LTSP setup at a school with about 60 unique users. Occasionally, we need to share a document, create a directory or place a config file in every user's account. Obviously, it's ...

I would like to develop a new program for Ubuntu that will
monitor the user's activity ,If user frequently uses a particular software "X" in certain time (like 8:00 A.M - 10:00 A.M ) ,when the time ...

I recently installed postgresql. (I know very little about it, but may try it out at some point.) I noticed that a user named postgres (which I do not recall creating manually) is now listed both on ...

I ran a stupid command: sudo chown -R ngoclb:ngoclb /usr.
Then I couldn't use sudo command and login to Ubuntu.
To fix this issue, I using recovery mode to chown /usr to root (sudo chown -R root:root ...

I have an assignment that requires windows domain users to be able log in with their designated username and password, but it's not working for me.
And Yes, I have enabled and configured that file to ...

I had written some code that would allow me to make a batch of users based on a file with usernames in it. But it eventually went from just a few lines to about 50, and I deleted it. There has got to ...